Brothers Dan and Scott Leis, both dressed in World War II era uniforms, walk through the snow to inspect the target they were aiming at with their cannon.

Scenes from the Rocky Mountain Fifty Caliber Shooting Association’s 2009 Machine Gun Shoot.  Each year the organization holds two shoots during which machine gun owners and vendors bring their guns to shoot for a three day-long event.  Organizer Bob McBride described the muddy Fort Morgan event as “machine gun Woodstock without the dope.”  The annual events draw shooters from around the world to shoot at propane tanks, cars filled with containers of fuel, boxes of stick dynamite, and other “reactive ” targets.  Gave me a little bit of an opportunity to continue sketching around the peripheries of my Gun Culture U.S.A. project.  As much as I’d love to re-editorialize about the event, I’m pretty happy with the writeup I offered for a similar shoot hosted by the same organization last spring.  The full text is available here.

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It was a real pleasure to see this body of work all in one place.  Pieces of it have appeared here and there, but the real substance of the project has taken the better part of a year to complete and, well, I guess I’m not that good with closure anyhow; I’ve got another handful of shoots related to this project scheduled from here until the middle of the summer.  Have a peek at TIME.com’s take on the project here.